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#242 How EU Funding Helps Health Technology Find Its Feet

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From Idea to Market – Building Walk With Path with EU Funding
An in-person conversation with founder Lise Pape


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For episode #242, I travelled to Walk With Path’s Copenhagen office for an in-person conversation with founder Lise Pape. We start with the technology and the story behind it: a medtech journey influenced by Lise’s experience of her father’s Parkinson’s disease, followed by more than a decade of product development, clinical validation and work with users. Today, Walk With Path develops wearable technology including a connected sensor-based insole for mobility, gait analysis and diabetic foot care.


Then we follow the funding journey. Smaller grants eventually led to a €2.3 million SME Instrument project, and Walk With Path has since built experience across several European funding schemes and collaborative projects. Lise explains how a five-person company manages multiple funded projects alongside the commercial business, when external consultants make sense, how public support services can help, and why the long-term goal is increasingly to move from project funding towards commercial growth.

Time codes:

00:00 Arrival in Copenhagen

05:47 Guest introduction and fly in

08:22 The Company and the Story Behind

16:35 Experience with Funded Projects

39:12 Help and Support

44:40 What Have You Learned?

49:47 Future

52:33 Reflections and The Toughest Challenge

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